Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daphne Gottlieb

I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that's tremendously freeing. If it doesn't matter much, the stakes are lower and you can't really fail. It's insurrection. It's a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm.

Marshall McLuhan

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds

Jim Lushine

It will go to the Swahili alphabet or something else,

Mitch Hedberg

...and then at the end of the letter I like to write P.S. - this is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.

Paul Williams

The Russians and the Chinese will use their veto to make sure that there is an alphabet soup of organizations running Kosovo.

Michael Hayden

I used to have a little saying I used when people said, 'What are your priorities?' I'd give them a bit of government alphabet soup. I'd say 'CTCPROW: Counterterrorism, counterproliferation, rest of the world.'

Roy H. Williams

Each letter of the alphabet represents a phoneme, a tiny sound that joins with other tiny sounds to make the more complex sounds we call words.

Adora Svitak

My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in preschool, and I was already reading chapter books.

Stan Getz

It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with the horn. It’s a wonderful thing to speak extemporaneously, which is something I’ve never gotten the hang of. But musically I love to talk just off the top of my head. And that’s what jazz music is all about.

George Beranek

It also helps that Chinese contractors tend to do the work on their projects.

Hu Jia

I think it's ironic that the way the Chinese government prepares to host the United Nations Commission on Human Rights is by placing dissidents under house arrest.

Bill Gates

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement...access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Whatever Tencent can see, the Chinese government can see.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.

Jim Campbell

To get any volume for the Chinese it will take a couple of years to ramp up.

Mark White

I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play.

Robert Fortune

I have, however, often seen Chinese gardeners selecting suckers and plants for this purpose from the other plants which are growing in their garden.

Peter Thorne

I don't know many companies that have made a lot of money in Chinese banking, but clearly the potential is there.

Robert Gilmore

It all starts with who we got running the country,

Andy Reid

He can run, ... This doesn't stop him from running the football.

Donna Myers

What you are doing is running the seniors out of Worthington.

Lindsay Whalen

It could be worse, ... I'm already kind of running around and jumping. They kind of said to me, 'Just see how you feel.'

Derrick Williams

We talked all week about establishing the running game. We established out running game, and now we can see that we can run and pass.

Toney Baker

I was just running and I lowered my shoulder. That's it.

Carl Jung

You cannot outwalk your problems. Can never run fast enough to evade them completely.

Robert Cormier

Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.

Richard Paul Evans

Love never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time, while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

Bill Cleary

The Russians were the ogres then, you know. Mysterious.

Kim Clijsters

The Russians play a similar type of game,

Jawaharlal Nehru

The Russians have been so sweet to me,

Maelle Gavet

The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that!

Red Auerbach

Any coach needs talent. You start with talent. Without talent, we're all in the soup.

Richard Preston

The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.

Virginia Woolf

It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance...

Manny Pacquiao

I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.

Laura Esquivel

"Only the pots know the boiling points of the broths," she says as Tita weeps into the wedding batter she is making to celebrate the marriage of her sister to her own true love.

O. Henry

When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

Ellen DeGeneres

I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres.

Mike Huckabee

I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.

Masaharu Morimoto

Ramen is a dish that's very high in calories and sodium. One way to make it slightly healthier is to leave the soup and just eat the noodles.

Suzanne Williamson

Just make sure you throw out the bottles,

Gar Heard

He'll be back, I am sure he'll be back.

Johnathan Joseph

He's been there. He's making sure we don't go into this thing blind.

Tom Fisher

He's a veteran quarterback. I'm sure he'll be on top of his game.

Chance VanGundy

I thought for sure we were a top-10 team in our district.

Ralph Richardson

I think we can use (the study) to make sure we're in balance,

Richie Sexson

I was wondering why, when he left, he kind of got the boos. I wasn't really sure of why exactly,

Gary Sanders

He was really on target. He made sure that he didn't let up even though we got the big lead.

Reuben Droughns

I don't know about that. I'm sure it'll get me some carries.

Hassan Nasrallah

The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto.

Bill Owens

If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.